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Industry or Field? The Value of the Field Construct to Study Digital Creative Industries

In: Technology and Creativity

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  • Santi Furnari

    (City, University of London)

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This chapter identifies the assumptions underlying the two constructs of industry and field, comparing their usefulness to study the digital transformation of creative industries. Two assumptions of the industry construct make it less useful to understand the blurring of creative industries’ boundaries and roles induced by digital technologies: (1) industry boundaries are defined on the basis of a central product/service; (2) organizations’ positions in an industry are defined on the basis of organizations’ attributes (competencies/resources, cost functions, etc.) vis-à-vis each other. Differently, the field construct draws on a relational and activity-centered definition of boundaries and organizational positions, orienting the researcher’s attention to a broader variety of actors and to the multiple relations (symbolic and material) connecting them. These assumptions underlying the field construct are more useful to study the fluid dynamics shaping the creative industries in the digital era, enabling the researcher to better ‘see’ the processes and mechanisms underneath such dynamics.

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  • Santi Furnari, 2020. "Industry or Field? The Value of the Field Construct to Study Digital Creative Industries," Springer Books, in: Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen & Barbara Slavich & Mukti Khaire (ed.), Technology and Creativity, chapter 0, pages 63-86, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-17566-5_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17566-5_4
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